5Rya
Member
Question for anyone who lives in or near Amherst, NY. Is anyone able to receive this channel clearly? I understand that the channel has no repeater and uses mobile units but today there was a call and I was about 3 miles away from the scene and the other day there was call where I was around 2 miles from the scene and my rooftop antenna (30 feet above ground) doesn't pick up these transmissions most of the time. I could see a back of set antenna not picking them up but I figured a rooftop antenna should be able to pick them up fine. Sometimes the scanner will pick up the signal and it shows it on 1 bar of signal so I am assuming it is just that the mobile units are just not putting up enough signal to be heard 2-3 miles away but wanted to ask you guys first in case you had any advice. Thanks